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Structural Basis for the Recruitment of Glycogen Synthase by Glycogenin Structural basis for the recruitment of glycogen PNAS PLUS synthase by glycogenin Elton Zeqiraja, Xiaojing Tang a, Roger W. Hunter b,1, Mar García-Rochac, Andrew Judda,MariaDeakb,1, Alexander von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff b, Igor Kurinovd, Joan J. Guinovartc,e,MikeTyersf,g,2, Kei Sakamotob,1,2, and Frank Sicheria,h,i,2 aLunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1X5; bMedical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, United Kingdom; cInstitute for Research in Biomedicine, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; dDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Argonne, IL 60439; eDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; fInstitute for Research in Immunology and Cancer and gDepartment of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada H3C 3J7; and hDepartment of Biochemistry and iDepartment of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A8 Edited by Gregory A. Petsko, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, and approved June 10, 2014 (received for review February 19, 2014) Glycogen is a primary form of energy storage in eukaryotes that is and forms a primer that is converted into a full-size glycogen essential for glucose homeostasis. The glycogen polymer is syn- particle by the combined actions of GS and GBE (1, 7). Once thesized from glucose through the cooperative action of glycogen fully elaborated, a glycogen particle can comprise up to ∼55,000 synthase (GS), glycogenin (GN), and glycogen branching enzyme glucose residues with a size distribution in muscle tissue of 10–44 and forms particles that range in size from 10 to 290 nm. GS is nm in diameter, termed β particles (8, 9). In liver, glycogen par- regulated by allosteric activation upon glucose-6-phosphate bind- ticles of 110–290 nm in diameter, termed α particles, are formed ing and inactivation by phosphorylation on its N- and C-terminal by the assembly of several β particles, possibly through covalent regulatory tails. GS alone is incapable of starting synthesis of a gly- linkage (9, 10). Glycogen particle size varies greatly between cogen particle de novo, but instead it extends preexisting chains tissues and species (11), but the basis and significance of these initiated by glycogenin. The molecular determinants by which GS size differences are poorly understood. recognizes self-glucosylated GN, the first step in glycogenesis, are Glycogenin is a member of the GT8 family of glycosyl- BIOCHEMISTRY unknown. We describe the crystal structure of Caenorhabditis ele- transferases with a GT-A architecture containing an N-terminal gans GS in complex with a minimal GS targeting sequence in GN catalytic domain with a single Rossmann fold that operates as an and show that a 34-residue region of GN binds to a conserved obligate dimer (12–14). The core catalytic domain is followed by surface on GS that is distinct from previously characterized allo- steric and binding surfaces on the enzyme. The interaction identi- a C-terminal extension of variable length and undefined struc- fied in the GS-GN costructure is required for GS–GN interaction ture. The last 35 amino acids of this tail in human and yeast and for glycogen synthesis in a cell-free system and in intact cells. contain a conserved motif that is sufficient for binding to GS in The interaction of full-length GS-GN proteins is enhanced by an cell lysates (15). The region that separates the core catalytic avidity effect imparted by a dimeric state of GN and a tetrameric domain of GN and the GS binding motif is highly variable both state of GS. Finally, the structure of the N- and C-terminal regula- in sequence and in length (Fig. 1A). Most eukaryotes possess two tory tails of GS provide a basis for understanding phosphoregula- versions of GN that differ in the length of this linker, which tion of glycogen synthesis. These results uncover a central molecular mechanism that governs glycogen metabolism. Significance glucose metabolism | energy metabolism | glycogenesis | starch The body stores excess blood glucose as glycogen, a sugary substance that contains up to 55,000 glucose molecules joined lycogen forms the major rapidly accessible energy reserve in together as a chain, mostly in liver and muscle cells. Conversion Geukaryotes and, as such, is essential for cellular and whole- of glucose to glycogen and glycogen to glucose in these cells body energy supply and glucose homeostasis. In mammals, glu- plays an important role in regulating blood glucose levels. cose is stored as glycogen mainly in muscle and liver cells (and to Glycogen ensures that we don’t run out of fuel during pro- a lesser extent in astrocytes, adipocytes, and kidney and pancre- longed exercise. To make glycogen from blood sugar, cells atic cells) when blood glucose levels are high, and then released need two enzymes: glycogenin and glycogen synthase. Glyco- for utilization within the cell, or systemically when glucose and genin kick starts the process by first linking to itself a string of energy levels are low. The dysregulation of glycogen metabolism glucose residues and then recruiting glycogen synthase to contributes to glycogen storage diseases (1), cardiac myopathies elaborate this “seed” glycogen particle. Here, we describe the (2), neurodegeneration (3), insulin resistance (4), and cancer (5). molecular details of how these two enzymes come together Notably, the up-regulation of glycogen synthesis provides an al- and begin to make glycogen. ternate source of energy under hypoxic conditions and contrib- utes to cancer cell survival in preangiogenic states (5). Author contributions: E.Z., X.T., R.W.H., M.G.-R., A.J., J.J.G., M.T., K.S., and F.S. designed research; E.Z., X.T., R.W.H., M.G.-R., A.J., M.D., A.v.W.-M., and I.K. performed research; J.J.G. Glycogen is a branched polymer of glucose formed primarily contributed new reagents/analytic tools; E.Z., X.T., R.W.H., M.G.-R., K.S., and F.S. analyzed through α1,4 glycosidic linkages, with periodic intersecting α1,6 data; and E.Z., M.T., K.S., and F.S. wrote the paper. linkages serving as branch points. In eukaryotes, glycogen is The authors declare no conflict of interest. synthesized through the cooperative action of three enzymes, This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. namely glycogen synthase (GS), glycogenin (GN), and glycogen Data deposition: The atomic coordinates of C. elegans GS–GN34 complex structure have branching enzyme (GBE) (1), which use UDP-glucose (UDP-G) been deposited in the Protein Data Bank, www.pdb.org (PDB ID code 4QLB). as a glucose donor. A GN dimer initiates the glycogen polymer 1Present address: Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences SA, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. by autoglucosylation of a conserved tyrosine residue (Tyr195 in 2To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: [email protected], md.tyers@ human GN1, Tyr230 in yeast GN1, and Tyr194 in Caenorhabditis umontreal.ca, or [email protected]. α – elegans GN), leading to an 1,4-linked chain of 8 12 glucose This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10. units (6). This oligosaccharide remains attached to glycogenin 1073/pnas.1402926111/-/DCSupplemental. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1402926111 PNAS | Published online June 30, 2014 | E2831–E2840 Downloaded by guest on October 1, 2021 ranges from 50 to 257 residues in yeast, 7–142 residues in worm GS enzymes belong to the GT5 family and appear to lack these and 34–170 residues in human. In addition, the linker region is a regulatory features, although both the GT3 and GT5 families have site of alternative splicing in humans that imparts further length a GT-B architecture comprised of two tightly associated Ross- variation (16). The functional significance of the variability in mann fold domains (13, 17). GS, unlike GN, lacks the ability to linker length has yet to be explored. initiate glucose chain formation and instead only catalyzes the ex- GS synthesizes α1,4-linked glucose polymers. The mamma- tension of primed chains generated by GN. Because GN is a con- lian and yeast GS enzymes belong to the GT3 family of glycosyl- stitutively active enzyme, glycogen synthesis is regulated at the level transferases and are regulated by covalent phosphorylation and of GS catalytic function. GS activity is tightly repressed by phos- allosteric ligand interactions. In contrast, the bacterial and plant phorylation (1, 18) on regulatory sites within N-terminal (sites 2 Fig. 1. Structure of CeGS in complex with CeGN34.(A) Domain architecture of CeGS (GT-B fold) and CeGN (GT-A fold). (B) Interaction of CeGN34 to CeGS determined by fluorescence polarization. Kd value ± SEM is the average of three independent experiments carried out in duplicate. (C) Structure of the CeGS tetramer bound to the CeGN34 peptide. (D) Comparison of CeGS protomers (blue) and the budding yeast ScGS (PDB ID code 3NAZ, gray). The N-terminal extension of CeGS (green) and C-terminal extensions of CeGS (red) and ScGS (orange) are highlighted. Phosphoregulatory sites 2 (S12), 2a (T19), 3a (S654), 3b (S658), and 3c (S662) and the allosteric regulatory site (Arg cluster) on the CeGS protomer are shown as ball and stick models with violet-colored carbon atoms. (E) Peel away surface representations of the CeGS–CeGN complex with contact residues (CeGS, Upper; CeGN, Lower). (F) Detailed stereoview of the CeGS– CeGN34 complex. CeGS is shown in blue and CeGN in green. Side chain residues that make direct contacts are shown as sticks with colored heteroatoms (oxygen, red; nitrogen, dark blue; sulfur, yellow). Glycine residues are depicted as blue spheres, and carbonyl oxygens are shown as red spheres.
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